Mahindra Defence to Manufacture Integrated ASW Defence Suite

CategoryDefence

Last Updated30/08/2021

Ministry of Defence has concluded a contract with Mahindra Defence Systems Limited for procurement of 14 Integrated Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Defence Suites (IADS) at a cost of Rs 1,349.95 crore.
The contract has been done under the ‘Buy and Make (Indian)’ category of defence procurement.
This will be a boost to India’s ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ mission and provides a major fillip to indigenous defence industry in technology development.

Mahindra Defence is engaged in catering to needs of all three wings of the defence forces - Army, Navy and Airforce.
Its product range include armoured vehicles, underwater warfare equipment, radars and surveillance equipment, etc.
IADS is a high-end underwater equipment that uses latest technology.
It is designed to detect and protect warships from underwater threats.
It is a versatile system capable of operations from all sizes of warships - small, medium, and large.
The complex array of sensors in water undertakes surveillance, and provides inputs for signal processing and analysis, to enable necessary action.

Union Government released Defence Procurement Procedure in the year 2016, which replaced the Defence Procurement Policy of 2013.
DPP 2016 was streamlined with a focus on indigenously designed, developed and manufactured weapon systems.
It also added an additional category “Buy (Indian-IDDM)” i.e Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured, as the most preferred way of defence goods acquisition.
Outright purchase of equipment and procurements under this scheme are categorized as Buy (Indian- IDDM).